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Shepherd of Hermas — Vision 3, section vi
The available POB edition is a partial translation, not a summary or the complete ancient work. Popular, not Scripture. Artwork interprets literary visions and teaching; it does not establish their portrayals as historical events.
Source and translation notes
The text names Hermas as its narrator. The illustrations do not identify a historical author or supply authenticated portraits.
Existing reader manuscript-image reference: Codex Sinaiticus. Working source: Lightfoot & Harmer 1891 (normalized OCR) · Greek
English witness: People's Open Bible provisional English rendering (Cartha Inc. and contributors) · CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ — for POB project outputs; source editions retain their original licenses
Numbered reading units are modern paragraph divisions, not ancient verse numbers. The available units follow Visions, Mandates, and Similitudes; absent passages are not reconstructed.
- The available edition begins mid-dialogue and ends mid-sentence in Similitude 8.iv; absent passages are not supplied.
Shepherd of Hermas 14:1
Cut Down and Thrown Far
Cracked Stones, Round Stones and Useful Lives · Shepherd of Hermas 14
Story guide: Her serious explanation leads into a spatial essay of cut stones far from the tower. The image recalls their location while her words give its meaning.
Open this scene in the reader →1“Do you want to know about those who are being cut down and thrown far from the tower? These are the sons of lawlessness; they believed in hypocrisy, and no wickedness departed from them. For this reason they have no salvation, because they are not fit for the building on account of their wicked deeds. Therefore they were cut down and thrown far away because of the anger of the Lord, because they provoked him.
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